Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 270

I’m glad to climb back into the safety of the SUV with James after leaving the meeting with Ryker.

There wasn’t much left to say after Ryker made his ultimatum. He’s not going to help me get the Al tech back, not if it means moving against his mate.

I know I should heed his warning.

No one in their right mind pits themselves against the Old

Country Wolves and expects to survive.

But the tech–and whatever damage it might do is my

responsibility.

My family built it, and my family lost it.

No matter the cost, I have to get it back. Then decide whether to hand it over to the military like it was supposed to be, or destroy it and tell the military that the project failed.

“This isn’t good, Leah,” James says once we start driving.

“Tell me about it,” I mutter despondently. “But it doesn’t change things.”

“It doesn’t?” James says incredulously. “Leah, you heard Ryker. If you go after Karolina, he will come for you. Even Aaron was smart enough not to cross the Old Country Wolves.”

“In the past, maybe,” I reply, ignoring the tightness in my chest and the tears that prick my eyes. “But if he was here now, I know he’d be thinking about doing exactly that.”

God, I wish Aaron was here right now.

My entire body aches with wanting my mate.

My heart and soul are in agony, wounded in a way I know I’m never going to recover from. Not until I meet Aaron again in the next life.

“Things are different now,” I keep going, shoving all those

feelings down to be dealt with later when I can be alone. “The

just wash our hands of this Al tech and be done with it. We

live with yourself if the tech got used and hundreds

even millions–of people

if whoever has it

rival packs? Would you still be able

in the mirror and not feel

deaths?”

I couldn’t

going to do?”

into Karolina for a start,” I reply. “We’ll just have to

spend a few minutes mulling over my thoughts.

ideas start coming to me. “Is there a way to track Karolina’s car? Or better yet, her cell phone? Maybe even

but then again, he hasn’t looked happy about any of

not

Good.

like I’m getting

Karolina knows where the missing

on it–or, god forbid–get ready

go

1. it.

few days or weeks should give us a good idea of all the places she

ourselves

us anywhere.

the time we get back to

wishes me goodnight, and we

check on Ethan, but he’s sleeping soundly in his

room, then into

take a shower but don’t linger. I just want to wash the day away before I go to

mattress and collapse in the middle, dragging the blankets over myself and burrowing into the

pillows.

of Aaron’s scent and I

one day soon it’ll be

one day in the distant future, I won’t even